CreekPath to Partner with Leading Vendors to Offer State-of-the-Art, Heterogeneous Storage Area Management Software; Partners Include EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Brocade and More.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

2002 Mission Critical Storage Networking

LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2001

CreekPath(TM) Systems, an emerging provider of automated, policy-based, storage area management (SAM) software solutions, today announced relationships with a number of industry-leading storage device vendors, including EMC Corp., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Sun Microsystems, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Brocade Communications Systems, Network Appliance, JNI Corp., Emulex Corp., McData Corp. and QLogic Corp.

By supporting popular Storage Area Network (SAN) devices from these vendors, CreekPath's SAM software solutions will enable enterprise storage customers to take greater control of their storage networks. CreekPath's new SAM software solutions, which will be announced in January and available in early 2002, ensure higher availability of the application while applying end-user service-level requirements to all storage decisions.

"The combination of the industry's best-of-breed SAN component vendor products and CreekPath's SAM software solutions will allow customers to significantly save money by managing and controlling the complexity of SANs with a powerful single-touch, policy-driven SAM solution," said Mike Koclanes, president, CEO and co-founder of CreekPath Systems. "By being heterogeneous, the CreekPath software solutions will allow any enterprise, anywhere to have state-of-the-art storage area management."

CreekPath has joined the following developers and partner programs:

-- EMC E-Infostructure(TM) Developers Program,

-- Sun Developers Program and Sun Start-up Program,

-- HDS Hi-Command Developers Program,

-- Brocade Fabric Threads Developer Program,

-- LSI Partnership Program,

-- JNI SANpartners(TM) Program, and

-- Network Appliance Advantage Partnership Program.

CreekPath's new SAM software supports the following devices:

-- EMC's Symmetric(TM) devices,

-- Sun StorEdge(TM) 9900 series devices,

-- HDS's 9900 series devices,

-- LSI's devices that are OEMed by IBM, HP, StorageTek, and

others,

-- Brocade's switches,

-- McData's directors,

-- JNI's host bus adapter (HBA),

-- QLogic's HBA,

-- Emulex's HBA, and

-- Sun's Solaris(TM).

About CreekPath Systems

CreekPath Systems is a software development company at the forefront of providing storage area management (SAM) solutions that help mitigate the rapidly escalating cost of managing shared resources.

CreekPath has secured funding in excess of $20 million since its inception in January 2000. Key investors include TeleSoft Partners (www.telesoftvc.com), Sequel Venture Partners (www.sequelvc.com) and Exabyte Corp. (www.exabyte.com).

CreekPath will be announcing its new SAM software solutions at the 2002 Mission Critical Storage Networking trade show in Phoenix, Ariz., on January 17 and 18.

For More Information

Visit the CreekPath Web site at www.creekpath.com or contact Paula Dallabetta at 303/845-1039, [e-mail].